Research Insights
Our Research Insights interview series offers short videos and podcasts by Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) scholars discussing their research topics, books, and theories.
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Research Insights Videos
- Interview
- July 2, 2024
- 00:38:32
Digital Science Speaker Series - Meet Dr Maria Avxentevskaya and Dr Ben Johnson
- Several Speakers
- Interview
- June 13, 2024
- 08:39:00
Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia
More- Interview
- May 3, 2024
- 00:12:54
A New Approach to Understanding Knowledge and Ownership
More- Presentation
- April 4, 2023
- 00:12:38
How Can the History of Earth Sciences Help to Explain Contemporary Distrust Towards Science in General?
More- Presentation
- March 27, 2023
- 00:08:08
What Can the History of Schizophrenia Teach Us about “Revolutionary” Breakthroughs in Science and Medicine?
More- Discussion
- December 30, 2022
- 00:58:25
"Repenser l'évolution de la connaissance pour l'Anthropocène"
- Several Speakers
- Presentation
- November 28, 2022
- 00:09:32
How Can Sound Help Us to Better Understand Early and Medieval China?
More- Presentation
- November 28, 2022
- 13:27:00
What Can Artisanal Production Teach Us about Knowledge and Ownership?
More- Interview
- September 27, 2022
- 00:10:40
How Does the Homogenization of Scientific Knowledge Occur?
More- March 22, 2022
- 01:31:00
Pandemic Perspectives
More- Interview
- February 23, 2022
- 00:27:36
Alles bewegt! Wissen unterwegs - Canzler & Kalmbach reden über Mobilität
More- August 27, 2021
- 01:52:16
Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
More- Presentation
- July 29, 2021
- 00:05:57
Die Expedition #fürdasWissen - Expedition for Knowledge
- Malte Vogl
- Presentation
- July 28, 2021
- 00:12:59
Leonardo: Virtual Tour with Sabine Hoffmann (with English Subtitles)
- Sabine Hoffmann
- Presentation
- June 23, 2021
- 00:12:09
Leonardo: Virtual Tour with Serge von Arx
- Serge von Arx
- June 4, 2021
- 01:34:36
Behind the Scenes: Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know
- Several Speakers
- Interview
- March 18, 2021
- 00:24:07
Women in Science: Shirley Ann Jackson
- Several Speakers
- December 22, 2020
- 00:10:20
Diplomacy in the Time of Cholera
- Several Speakers
- Presentation
- December 17, 2020
- 00:04:14
About the Berliner Antike-Kolleg
- Jürgen Renn
- Interview
- December 4, 2020
- 00:03:52
Interview: Local Gazetteers Research Tools
- Sean Wang
- Interview
- November 13, 2020
- 00:09:31
How Does Local Knowledge Influence Broader Concepts and Structures of Information?
More- Interview
- October 16, 2020
- 01:01:59
Covid and Historical Epistemology
- Several Speakers
- September 18, 2020
- 00:05:53
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta
More- September 16, 2020
- 00:07:26
History of Science ON CALL: Clarissa Ai Ling Lee
More- Interview
- August 25, 2020
- 00:07:49
How Does China Remove Air Pollution from Cities for Prestigious International Events?
More- August 18, 2020
- 00:06:50
History of Science ON CALL: Betty Smocovitis
More- July 8, 2020
- 00:06:50
History of Science ON CALL: Anna Elsner
More- June 9, 2020
- 00:06:50
History of Science ON CALL: Sascha Roesler
More- June 4, 2020
- 00:07:50
History of Science ON CALL: Larisa Jašarević (in Bosnian)
More- June 4, 2020
- 00:06:50
History of Science ON CALL: Larisa Jasarevic
More- May 21, 2020
- 00:07:32
History of Science ON CALL: Harry Yi-Jui Wu
More- May 20, 2020
- 00:07:35
History of Science ON CALL: Bettina Wahrig
More- May 14, 2020
- 00:07:15
History of Science ON CALL: Edna Bonhomme
More- May 12, 2020
- 00:04:31
History of Science ON CALL: Tatsushi Fujihara (in Japanese)
More- May 7, 2020
- 00:07:15
History of Science ON CALL: Katja Krause (in German)
More- May 6, 2020
- 00:08:19
History of Science ON CALL: Richard Rottenburg (in German)
More- May 4, 2020
- 00:06:13
History of Science ON CALL: Lara Keuck
More- May 4, 2020
- 00:06:13
History of Science ON CALL: Lara Keuck (in German)
More- April 28, 2020
- 00:06:04
History of Science ON CALL: Michael Lackner
More- April 22, 2020
- 00:03:33
History of Science ON CALL: Togo Tsukahara
More- April 20, 2020
- 00:08:19
History of Science ON CALL: Mathias Grote (in German)
More- April 15, 2020
- 00:06:52
History of Science ON CALL: Vivian Shaw
More- April 13, 2020
- 00:05:34
History of Science ON CALL: Angelika Messner
More- April 8, 2020
- 00:05:14
History of Science ON CALL: Iwo Amelung (in German)
More- April 8, 2020
- 00:11:33
History of Science ON CALL: Chelsea Szendi Schieder (in Japanese)
More- April 6, 2020
- 00:11:33
History of Science ON CALL: Chelsea Szendi Schieder
More- Discussion
- April 1, 2020
- 00:07:56
History of Science ON CALL: Lyle Fearnley
More- Discussion
- March 30, 2020
- 00:03:30
History of Science ON CALL: Clare Griffin
More- Discussion
- March 30, 2020
- 00:04:58
History of Science ON CALL: Clare Griffin (in Russian)
More- Discussion
- March 27, 2020
- 00:05:17
History of Science ON CALL: Sabina Leonelli (in Italian)
More- Discussion
- March 24, 2020
- 00:05:05
History of Science ON CALL: Sabina Leonelli
More- Interview
- March 16, 2020
- 05:54:00
Executive Director Dagmar Schäfer Awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2020
More- November 4, 2019
- 00:04:38
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River Short Film
More- Interview
- October 28, 2019
- 05:12:00
Executive Director Dagmar Schäfer on Mobility and Humanities
More- Interview
- December 19, 2018
- 00:07:17
Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650
More- Interview
- December 7, 2018
- 00:29:19
Medieval and Early Modern Science
More- Interview
- December 4, 2018
- 00:43:08
History of Science in Prehistory and Early History
More- Interview
- November 19, 2018
- 00:05:06
Das kulturelle Erbe bewahren
More- Interview
- November 16, 2018
- 01:00:12
Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- Jürgen Renn
- Interview
- June 11, 2018
- 00:02:48
Eine Revolution der Geisteswissenschaften
- Jürgen Renn
- Interview
- May 8, 2018
- 00:02:44
Laureates in Review: Lorraine Daston
More- Interview
- March 22, 2018
- 00:32:35
The Crafting of the 10,000 Things. Shifting Frameworks of Knowledge and Technology in Imperial China
More- Interview
- February 20, 2018
- 00:05:05
Heisenberg and the Search for a Final Theory: An Interview
More- Interview
- December 11, 2017
- 00:05:23
Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa
More- Presentation
- November 26, 2017
- 00:54:48
Are We Experiencing a "Sixth Extinction" and Does It Matter?
More- Interview
- September 23, 2014
- 00:11:07
Training Children, Imagining Industrial Adulthoods
More- Interview
- September 17, 2014
- 00:10:39
Praktisches und wissenschaftliches Wissen
More- Interview
- September 17, 2014
- 00:08:14
Kultivierung von Lotus und der Betrieb der „Palastmaschine“
- Martina Siebert
- Interview
- February 13, 2014
- 00:35:38
Der andere Galilei
- Jürgen Renn
- Interview
- January 29, 2014
- 00:33:07
Galileis Weltsicht
More- Interview
- January 23, 2014
- 00:26:33
Galilei auf seinem Weg zum Ruhm
MoreResearch Insights Podcasts
Podcast
Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (but It’s All Interconnected)
- Adrien De Sutter Alexander Blum Dora Vargha Yishu Mao Rocco Gaudenzi Benjamin Johnson Karolina Anna Sobecka Pakinam Amer Verena Braun Stephanie Hood
Podcast
IsisCB on Pandemics: Fundamental Concepts in Understanding Pandemic Diseases
- Dora Vargha Lukas Engelmann Jacob Steere-Williams
Podcast
Has Humanity Ushered in a New Geological Era?
- Jürgen Renn Robert Schlögl Corinne M. Flick
Podcast
Science Social 07: Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos
- Jürgen Renn Stephanie Hood Verena Braun
Podcast
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Objectivity
- Lorraine Daston Peter Galison
Podcast
Science Social 04: "The 'How' of 'How-To?'"
- Mathias Grote Elaine Leong Verena Braun Stephanie Hood
Podcast
Plastic Waste in the Ocean: Researchers Sounded Alarm Back in 1972 (in German)
- Anja Krieger
Decolonization in Action Episode 5: Economics, Expertise, and Revolution in Postcolonial Sudan
- Edna Bonhomme Kristyna Comer
Decolonization in Action Episode 4: Colonial Medicalization and Homosexuality in the Philippines
- Edna Bonhomme Kristyna Comer
Podcast
Büchernarr und Zeichenkünstler: Warum Leonardo da Vinci kein Universalgenie war
- Jürgen Renn
Podcast
Decolonization in Action Episode 3: Leftism in Action: A History of Leftist People of Color
- Edna Bonhomme Kristyna Comer
Podcast
Decolonization in Action Episode 2: A Topography of Decoloniality
- Edna Bonhomme Kristyna Comer
Podcast
Decolonization in Action Episode 1, Part 2: Decolonizing Berlin
- Edna Bonhomme Kristyna Comer
Podcast
Decolonization in Action Episode 1, Part 1: Decolonizing Berlin
- Edna Bonhomme Kristyna Comer
Podcast
What do Historians want from "Materiality"? Reflections on Theory and the Humanities since the 1970s
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